Anne Arundel Tech Council Announces TechAwards 07 Nominees in four categories
“TechAwards 07:In the Flow” to honor county’s rising tech companies, technology company of the year, outstanding innovators and tech mavericks at third annual event
Annapolis, MD – October 12, 2007 – A company that is linking doctors and pharmacies with a tech-savvy approach to patient care. A start-up IT service provider that focuses on providing round-the-clock support for its government customers. A software company whose system allows caretakers to spend more time providing direct care to people with developmental disabilities. A company that’s developed the first secure USB thumb drive allowing clients to access sensitive data from any computer. A long-standing government contractor in Anne Arundel County that’s consistently grown over the past decade.
These are just a few of the innovators, rising tech companies, long-standing technology service providers and community-oriented tech companies that are vying for one of four nominated awards at the Anne Arundel Tech Council’s TechAwards 07 program.
The winners of the awards will be announced at the 3rd Annual TechAwards 07: In the Flow awards program on Nov. 6, 2007, 6 to 9 pm at the Loews Annapolis Hotel.
The Anne Arundel Tech Council received 31 submissions this year from a variety of accomplished technology businesses throughout the county. In a blind voting process, a 10-member selection committee spent two weeks examining the nominations and criteria and then voted on the top contenders.
Finalists in the Tech Company of the Year, Innovator Award, Good Chip Award and Tech Service Company of the Year award are listed below.
The Tech Company of the Year Award is given to a company that has achieved significant milestones in the past year and demonstrates itself as a recognized force in the local technology community:
• Proteus Technologies of Annapolis Junction is a defense contractor providing software and systems engineering for national security and health services government clients that has logged consistent revenue growth in the past six years;
• Force 3, Crofton, was founded in 1991 and has shown consistent growth ever since, most recently with its expansion into the commercial market. Force 3 supplies secure, wireless unified communication networks and services to government and commercial businesses across the US.
• Syracuse Research Corporation of Hanover is a not-for-profit research and development organization with a 50-year history, supplying solutions for programs in the defense, environmental and intelligence communities.
The Innovator Award recognizes a company that best exhibits new technologies, innovative strategies for business partnerships, and maximizing, enhancing and advancing technology in Anne Arundel County:
• Annapolis-based RxNT, a medical software company that runs a nationwide electronic prescription system;
• Ultravision Security Systems, located in the Chesapeake Innovation Center, which has developed products that can detect motion while seeing through materials such as concrete and earth;
• BeCrypt, also a Chesapeake Innovation Center company, which has developed mobile security software that boots up an operating system from a USB thumb drive for secure file and email access from any location.
The Good Chip Award recognizes companies that are working to better the community, either through the technology it is developing or through community service and donations.
• Carematic, in Annapolis, developed on-line software for facilities that serve people with developmental disabilities, allowing smoother operations, improved communications and more time spent directly on care;
• Deyegenostics, Annapolis, provides free online early eye disease detection using an online testing system;
• Take One Video, a video production and multimedia company in Annapolis, has consistently provided free or nearly-free video and multimedia support to a variety of non-profit organizations and causes throughout the region, including the Polar Bear Plunge for Special Olympics Maryland, the Salvation Army and other organizations.
The Tech Service Award goes to an area company whose core business is around providing services in and for the technology community, and recognizes a continued commitment to customer retention.
• Convergence Technology Consulting in Glen Burnie is a networking engineering firm specializing in network infrastructure and server and desktop virtualization that works with other technology companies in the area – even competitors- to advance tech growth in the region;
• Inovex, a Crownsville company providing IT systems consulting to government and commercial businesses on a 24-hour basis;
• NMR Consulting has an 11-year history in Annapolis providing everything from basic IT support to application development. NMR has organized a BRAC team of more than 28 companies to capitalize on incoming opportunities.
Also that night, the Legend’s Circle Individual and Company awards will be given to an individual and a company respectively who are seen as stalwarts and supporters of the local tech community.
Selection committee members this year were Bob Hannon, Chairman & CEO, Anne Arundel Economic Development Corp; Gary Cooper, Technical Director of the ARINC Innovation Center, ARINC; Rod Zwainz, Senior Engineering Manager, Lockheed Martin; Chase Rowbotham, Commercial Banking Officer, M&T Bank; Ben Wu, Senior Technology Advisor, Maryland DBED; Mike Grier, President & CEO, Mosaic Technologies Group; Amy Mininger, President, MarComFly; Michael Ryan, President and CEO, South River Technologies; Robyn Brenza, Director of Corporate Relations, UMBC; and Dwayne Robinson, President, Vision Systems & Technology Inc.
Further information and registration is available online at www.aatechcouncil.org/techawards
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For further information:
Laura Willoughby
Executive Director, Anne Arundel Tech Council
410-222-7410 ext 124
laura@aatechcouncil.org
